Video – Coast Guard medically evacuates 60-year-old man

CLEARWATER, Fla. – A Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Fla. aircrew medically evacuated a 60-year-old man from the 590-foot motor vessel, Resolve, 170 miles southwest of St. Petersburg, Fla., at about 3:30 p.m. Monday.

Search and rescue controllers at the Coast Guard’s Seventh District Command Center in Miami received a call from the Resolve‘s shipping agent at about 12:30 p.m., reporting that the master of the vessel was suffering from severe chest pains.

The crew of an HH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter from Air Station Clearwater safely hoisted the man and transferred him to Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Fla.